Speaker 1: Oh my god, is that Nico Blitter to see them
Speaker 1: want to raised If you ain't get the memo sipping
Speaker 1: in the city and send you know we put them
Speaker 1: at them, then go stuff in them hoos in the
Speaker 1: limo because they said they come from the jaw. They say,
Speaker 1: you know, I ain't gotta work last night show, so
Speaker 1: well watch watch what you make you feeling that you're
Speaker 1: gonna give me a billion and shall run the back
Speaker 1: of willing. I'm gonna be up on the island shilling.
Speaker 1: I came away from the wheeling and still run with
Speaker 1: the five six feeling. We live live like I ain't
Speaker 1: no deal list. It's gonna to be killing fifty one.
Speaker 1: Hey Juice and my leave boo kera boll What now
Speaker 1: they they got mat of the shell and raise ol
Speaker 1: we go buy toys. Oh no, no, oh, no Cruise
Speaker 1: show until nine is on the cruise man. That was
Speaker 1: a really nice mix. Bro Nico Blitz on the intro
Speaker 1: right that new node and you know I told Cruise
Speaker 1: before we got up here. I was like I had
Speaker 1: to throw them the jelly sickle. Yes, that was my
Speaker 1: introductions exactly six Yeah, crazy crazy Rick Rock did those
Speaker 1: beats a lot of beats on the ever Ready album Man.
Speaker 2: From the pay area, so it's very close forty.
Speaker 1: It was like, okay, that was obviously that was my
Speaker 1: first That's how I met mugs. That's that's forty security. Yeah,
Speaker 1: shared him with me place no no Diddy. I'm sorry
Speaker 1: it worked out. Yeah, yeah, right, good people working with
Speaker 1: good people. Man sir, Yes, welcome back, Man. How you
Speaker 1: feeling Man, Real good Man, real good Man? About to
Speaker 1: drop a new album Man on Friday, Man, June twenty seventh,
Speaker 1: Man Ready at the age sixteen for us, I'm so
Speaker 1: happy to be talking about the album cover. Well, I
Speaker 1: wanted to take it back to where a time where
Speaker 1: I couldn't afford to wear what I got on. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, This is up with everything you
Speaker 1: couldn't afford exactly exactly exactly. I couldn't afford the J's
Speaker 1: back then, you know what I'm sayzling, I couldn't afford
Speaker 1: the red and white troop like LLKJ. I really wanted that,
Speaker 1: you know, from the bigger and defferent kind of like era,
Speaker 1: you know, and the J three's Man, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, And I just wanted to be way Kansas
Speaker 1: City out with my hat flipped up, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. That's how the d Boys look back then,
Speaker 1: and I couldn't afford it. So I wanted to bring
Speaker 1: that back because I was taking it all the way
Speaker 1: back as the origin story. So here we go. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: Back then, inspiration was in the street. It wasn't on
Speaker 2: our televisions. It wasn't on the screen. Inspirations were on
Speaker 2: the corner.
Speaker 1: Totally, totally, you know what I'm saying, wearing the Dope
Speaker 1: Boy redbox and the J's and yes, sir, driving the
Speaker 1: mini trucks and yes, sir. You see, I had all
Speaker 1: three of my strange chains on too, flex and I
Speaker 1: was flexing, and I look good for my age too.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, yeah, go.
Speaker 2: Ahead, tech, you don't age, man?
Speaker 1: What what what is it? Bro? Talk to me?
Speaker 2: Man?
Speaker 1: You're taking TikTok vitamins.
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Puerto Rican lady? Yeah? Man, she got me doing parasite cleanses, man,
Speaker 1: like she got me you know, doing different facial think
Speaker 1: of a jigs, you know what I mean. For instance,
Speaker 1: I had like what you call a sabasis assist right here,
Speaker 1: you know, and My doctor told me I was gonna
Speaker 1: have to get it cut out. And my lady is like, na,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna leave a mark on your beautiful face. Nope, nope, nope,
Speaker 1: I said. She said, you gotta change your cocoa butter
Speaker 1: and your shade butter to tallow. I'm like, what the
Speaker 1: hell is beef? Yeah? Okay, yeah, but this one is
Speaker 1: scented kind of, you know what I mean. Her friend
Speaker 1: makes it for me, and now it's a basic assist
Speaker 1: is no more, you know, just giving me remedies, many
Speaker 1: to keep me here for a while. You know, we
Speaker 1: got a two year old little girl now.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we need to stick around longer.
Speaker 3: Yeah right, I'm gonna need that, man, because I got
Speaker 3: assists right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Man, you know what I'm saying you need it's
Speaker 1: just built up oil. Yeah, that's what the doctor told me.
Speaker 1: They'll tell you got to get it cut out, and
Speaker 1: it's natural things you can do. You know. Before you
Speaker 1: walked in, I had that lump on my face. You
Speaker 1: see it? No, No, it's gone.
Speaker 2: I had the face yeah man. The link Yeah, that
Speaker 2: lady's phone number. She Puerto Rican, My my wife, the
Speaker 2: other the lady that's making the beef towel.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I think she's black.
Speaker 2: Okay, Before you walked in, we were talking about breath
Speaker 2: control and breath control, different different breathing techniques.
Speaker 1: Right, who's that guy you were talking about?
Speaker 3: Whim Hoff?
Speaker 1: Wim Hoff? I know that I know that name, but
Speaker 1: I know that name from.
Speaker 3: White dude like beard and everything. I think he's from
Speaker 3: a constantine. Where's he from?
Speaker 2: Breathing techniques? Well, you know how to get diseases out
Speaker 2: of your body through breathing?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard that.
Speaker 1: I thought you're talking about like like like singing like
Speaker 1: in rapp and you're on stage. You also have to
Speaker 1: have somewhat of a technique, right, total technique.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: This thing we posted a while back, it's like a commercial.
Speaker 1: It was a commercial for this record. It was pre
Speaker 1: order commercial and I did a whole live verse and
Speaker 1: I told people to watch my chest like I'm like
Speaker 1: middle school Uppere's no one for sure the man whatever
Speaker 1: that be hre, Papa, Y ain't know. The jam school
Speaker 1: slife is a load of fans go to cram in
Speaker 1: the bathroom. This baftoons come against me, get krysaling soda
Speaker 1: can till one day. They told me, if I'm somebody
Speaker 1: that can hold me, wrap it a dance in one
Speaker 1: of their homies, a new Trent for eighth grade en rolling.
Speaker 1: I can say it all in one breath because of
Speaker 1: my breathing techniques. I do three big breaths in between rhyming,
Speaker 1: and it allows me to do a whole four bars
Speaker 1: like that. You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2: So you know, yeah, man, Yeah, you're inhaling every time. Yeah,
Speaker 2: so you're yes, you're giving yourself breath versus giving it up.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yes, sir. I'm holding it so it's in reverse,
Speaker 1: but I'm holding my breath, but I'm still projecting, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's crazy.
Speaker 2: Wow.
Speaker 1: I taught myself that a long time ago, man, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, because I wanted to. I wanted
Speaker 1: to kind of be different from a lot of people,
Speaker 1: you know, when it comes to skill and being able
Speaker 1: to say things. Even if I have to cram a
Speaker 1: lot of words in a four bar segment, I can
Speaker 1: really get it out, you know what I mean? Live, Yeah, Yes,
Speaker 1: And that's why a lot of people still come to
Speaker 1: my shows because it sounds just like the records. Thank you,
Speaker 1: yes sir, and be disappointed like, man, that's a studio, man,
Speaker 1: he can't do that, right right right? We do this
Speaker 1: for real artists, man, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I always
Speaker 1: say real yeah yeah man. Live shows. I got one
Speaker 1: coming up, like a short one though, at the Grammy
Speaker 1: Museum on Thursday. I do like a thirty minute show
Speaker 1: real quick for everybody to let's get it. Let's get it,
Speaker 1: yeah man.
Speaker 2: A lot of artists will show up, the beat drops
Speaker 2: and the audience does the show right right, right right.
Speaker 1: That's the new generation they you know, they don't care,
Speaker 1: you know, they just get You're just there and you
Speaker 1: got the track plan and they're singing it. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. Must feel good. But we from Generation X,
Speaker 1: We're gonna make sure you hear everything. You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm the main vocal, The main vocal is
Speaker 1: out of there. I'm the main vocal on the mic.
Speaker 2: Just like you understand that they're paying to see you
Speaker 2: and you are going to give them everything you.
Speaker 1: Have, Yes, sir, I think that's that's that's why they
Speaker 1: keep coming back. Let's come. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: People keep saying they say, Hey, you got to come
Speaker 1: see this Tech nine show. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I used to have like three dudes up there with
Speaker 1: me helping me back in the day reinforcement, and then
Speaker 1: when they all went on their own, I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: what am I going to do? I've never been on
Speaker 1: stage by myself. But I realized that all those breathing
Speaker 1: techniques I've been doing for all those decades work for me.
Speaker 1: I can get my Kendrick and DMX and jay Z
Speaker 1: on finally, you know what I'm saying, and still have
Speaker 1: a dope show, you know what I mean. And that's
Speaker 1: what a lot of people see now. They're like, Man,
Speaker 1: it's different up there with you without Chris, Without Chris Calico,
Speaker 1: I'm like, but have you seen me with my band lately?
Speaker 1: You know what I mean? You know, so we still
Speaker 1: got that energy.
Speaker 2: Were getting it done, yes, sir, gatherings, the gathering of
Speaker 2: the it's coming up.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: How did that all start for you? And and that
Speaker 1: fan base. It's a vicious fan base. It started alone
Speaker 1: time ago in two thousand and three, when I was
Speaker 1: asked to be on one of their tours, the Wicked
Speaker 1: Wanker Tour, wow. And on that tour, I gained a
Speaker 1: lot of Juggalos and juggallettes. Those are ICP ICP fans,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. A lot of them. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about around the world in Canada, and that's a
Speaker 1: world own. Yeah man, yeah, man. It's like a subculture.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I've never seen anything like it before in
Speaker 1: my life. And over the years, I just became family.
Speaker 1: Now it got rocky in the middle where they thought
Speaker 1: that I was on a radio station and I said
Speaker 1: something that they didn't agree with, and you know, I
Speaker 1: was just talking out the gathering and how crazy it was,
Speaker 1: and they felt like I didn't say enough about the Juggalos,
Speaker 1: and you know, the clowns said something. And now I
Speaker 1: started getting death threats and this, that and the other.
Speaker 1: And I remember I did a show with them, a
Speaker 1: gathering around that time. When I was getting death threats.
Speaker 1: It was like like four gatherings ago or so, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And I felt like I was
Speaker 1: being attacked. So I said, I'm not doing it no more.
Speaker 1: So I've been away doing my own stuff without doing
Speaker 1: the gathering. But when I heard last year that they
Speaker 1: were doing the gathering of the Juggalos, the Legends. I
Speaker 1: called my book an agent, and I said, listen, if
Speaker 1: they call me for this show, because I told them,
Speaker 1: I don't never want to do it again. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I said to be I want to
Speaker 1: feel like I'm not being targeted when I'm on stage,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And I want to feel
Speaker 1: comfortable not be thinking about anything else, you know. But
Speaker 1: I told them if they call me, if Psychopathic called
Speaker 1: me for the Legends, say yes, I'll do it. So
Speaker 1: I'm doing the new one coming up. Hey, let's go. Yeah, man, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: totally totally yes, sir man, all the comments, everybody's happy
Speaker 1: that I'm coming, you know, that's right, That's right. How
Speaker 1: did that get squashed? We had to talk about it, man,
Speaker 1: Me and the clowns. Man, they kind of felt like that,
Speaker 1: you know, on that tour that I didn't have face paint.
Speaker 1: I just had it across my face, but I mean
Speaker 1: my forehead. But the artist that I had out there
Speaker 1: was not my friend Brian Bezel Dennis because he got killed.
Speaker 1: He started painting my face in ninety four and I
Speaker 1: was the killer clown since then. In Kansas City Missouri,
Speaker 1: you know, saying with a full skull face. But on
Speaker 1: that tour, I just had I think it was Craig
Speaker 1: Davis rest is soul. He was painting my foreheads, like
Speaker 1: words on my forehead and stuff like that, and he
Speaker 1: could he didn't have the skill to paint my whole
Speaker 1: face like Brian, you know. So the clowns were under
Speaker 1: the impression when I started. When I got a better one,
Speaker 1: a better artist to do my face, they were under
Speaker 1: impressing that I took it from them. They didn't know
Speaker 1: that I was to kill a clown back in the
Speaker 1: night twenty four before I even heard about So I
Speaker 1: had to give them the history of Tech nine and
Speaker 1: the history of the killer Clown in Kansas City. It
Speaker 1: was a myth that clown was driving a yellow van
Speaker 1: and he was kidnapped kids, but it was just a myth.
Speaker 1: We never saw it, but we were scared to death
Speaker 1: as kids. But I became the killer Clown lyrically, you know,
Speaker 1: And I gave them the whole background of Tech nine,
Speaker 1: and then they understood. And then my next tour they
Speaker 1: came out. I came to their town, Detroit, and they
Speaker 1: came out and introduced me for the crowd. It sold
Speaker 1: out crowd at the Star. Yeah, yeah, yeah, so that's
Speaker 1: how it was squashed. Okay, it was just a conversation.
Speaker 1: That's all it takes sometimes, right, Let's just sit down
Speaker 1: and talk it. Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 2: You know a lot could be fixed with the conversation, totally, man,
Speaker 2: So sure you know on fifty eight sixteen Forest, what
Speaker 2: does Yoda sound like?
Speaker 1: Yoda? What does it sound like? Man? It sounds like
Speaker 1: a hit to me, I'm saying. Okay, and not just
Speaker 1: because Wayne is on the hook, because on this record
Speaker 1: is just all me on the verse. I've never did
Speaker 1: a in my whole discography. I've never had an LP
Speaker 1: where I'm on all the verses because I you know,
Speaker 1: I pride myself on collaborating with elite artists, you know,
Speaker 1: but this one's all me, you know, on all the verses.
Speaker 1: And when I got to Yoda, I tried to do
Speaker 1: a whack and hook you know what I'm saying on
Speaker 1: my own, and it wasn't working. So as I started
Speaker 1: working through that really hard to write song because I'm
Speaker 1: actually I had the idea to rap like Yoda talks
Speaker 1: and George Lucas made him talk backwards, like what do
Speaker 1: you say something like a Jedi? Skywalker is you know,
Speaker 1: like I said, Skywalker is a Jedi? You know? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I'm starting off like broke I am. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about myself back when I was young. Broke I am.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what do I say next? Equivalent to
Speaker 1: a whopping twenty tons of pure don't my gams? I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: what's happening? Have your rhyming ticket revoked? I can right
Speaker 1: next to it really starving kill a goat wife dand
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, I'm rapping like Yoda. So
Speaker 1: after I got through it the first verse, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I got it. Oh, I got to do two more verses.
Speaker 1: It was the hardest song, Yes, and have to rhyme
Speaker 1: and then do it with style three verses, three verse
Speaker 1: right back and forth with me, Damon and Mario you
Speaker 1: know what perform Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. So after I
Speaker 1: wrote it and my hook was whack, I said, I
Speaker 1: said I need another alien on this. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So I hit Wayne up and he said it right back, man,
Speaker 1: And it's like the song is like in hit for him.
Speaker 1: It starts off with a hook and then after the
Speaker 1: first verse is another hook and then another verse and
Speaker 1: it's a hook and it's four hooks. Man. So I
Speaker 1: didn't even have to tell Wayne because he's such an
Speaker 1: elite artist, you know, I didn't even have to tell him, Hey, man,
Speaker 1: can you make the hooks not fly the hooks? You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, So it won't be repetitious, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? And just do variations of four hooks.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I sent it to him. Variations came back to me.
Speaker 3: I'm like, boom, yeah, is that response or that like
Speaker 3: that email back from Wayne with all those verses.
Speaker 1: Soon as I sent it to him, I got it
Speaker 1: back in like a few days. Wow. Yeah, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And he understood because when we shot
Speaker 1: the video, you know, we got the video shot finally,
Speaker 1: because we've been working together for years. We could have
Speaker 1: like an EP with all our songs, and I never
Speaker 1: could lock down a video because we're always busy. He
Speaker 1: is touring, I'm touring, he's doing this thing. He's Wayne, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So this time we finally
Speaker 1: locked him down with video and he understood. When we
Speaker 1: were talking in between shots, I was like, man, this
Speaker 1: song was so hard to write, he said, I heard
Speaker 1: it talking like Yoda. I'm like, he gets it, and people,
Speaker 1: because of the style, they're probably not going to get
Speaker 1: that I'm talking like that, even though the first thing
Speaker 1: I say is broke I am. But we did it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: got it done, man, got the video done.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 1: So Yoda. That's the story of Yoda man, and the
Speaker 1: reason why I got the name Yoda because x Rayded
Speaker 1: calls me Yoda because I'm a Jedi lyrically and I
Speaker 1: feel the same thing about him. People call him Yoda
Speaker 1: as well, so you know what I mean, he calls
Speaker 1: me Yoda.
Speaker 2: So along with the title, right, the concept and Yoda
Speaker 2: sounds like it every song or a lot of the
Speaker 2: content of of of each song or you know, of
Speaker 2: what's on the project.
Speaker 1: Excuse me?
Speaker 2: Is it from that standpoint where you were just starting
Speaker 2: out what you were?
Speaker 1: Yes, it was my It's my origin story what Lola
Speaker 1: talks about when I broke up my first rhyme. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying as a dare on the school bus,
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So you know, like you got the
Speaker 1: starts off with the birth I'm being born, you know,
Speaker 1: then Friday to Sunday. I'm talking about my mom married
Speaker 1: a Muslim when I was twelve, and we moved on
Speaker 1: fifty eight sixteen for us, and here come out all
Speaker 1: the stories from age twelve to age seventeen. When I
Speaker 1: ran away from home on the quest to become Tech nine,
Speaker 1: my mom married a Muslim. We coming from a Christian house.
Speaker 1: I felt like he was being hard on me and
Speaker 1: being mean to me. So once I got to seventeen,
Speaker 1: you think, you know, we think we know everything. So
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm getting out of here, you know. And
Speaker 1: I had something planned. So I was going to tell
Speaker 1: my mom that I'm going to Azida's for Thanksgiving holiday,
Speaker 1: you know, secause school is out, you know. But I
Speaker 1: came downstairs with the big trash bags. She said, you
Speaker 1: need all those clothesing trash backs go for a couple
Speaker 1: of days. I'm like yeah, and she kind of had
Speaker 1: a turn around eye and gave her a kiss, walked
Speaker 1: down the street, said bout all my friends. Have my
Speaker 1: cousin come pick me up. Pun never came back when
Speaker 1: the quest to become Tech nine. Now what I learned
Speaker 1: is as I matured, I realized he wasn't trying to
Speaker 1: be mean to me. He was trying to make me
Speaker 1: a better man, you know, a self sufficient man, an entrepreneur.
Speaker 1: That's why he was taking me to seminars, business seminars
Speaker 1: when I was twelve and thirteen. I didn't understand, you know,
Speaker 1: what I was doing.
Speaker 2: He felt he was being dragged.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah man, and unconsciously picking this thing
Speaker 1: up over the years and ended up owning my own business,
Speaker 1: Strange Music, and being the number one end upend a
Speaker 1: rapper in the world. So I say that had to
Speaker 1: carry on it, yeah man, you know. And I wrote
Speaker 1: a song called The Punishment and I talked about him
Speaker 1: put me on punishment for weeks, I mean not weeks,
Speaker 1: for summers. And it was a blood neighborhood where we stayed,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, because the Bloods moved thirty
Speaker 1: seventh Street, Foodtown, Brim moved from out here to our neighborhood,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, and turned it all ready,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm so. He knew that it was
Speaker 1: problems out there in the streets, so whenever I was
Speaker 1: messing up in school, he would put me on punishment
Speaker 1: for the whole summer. And I'm like, who's on punishment
Speaker 1: for the whole summer, the whole summer. Two summers I
Speaker 1: was on. You know, one summer I was messing up.
Speaker 1: I was I can't go outside, just go to work
Speaker 1: and take out the trash. That's it. Another summer, Come
Speaker 1: I do something else crazy, get busted with a girl
Speaker 1: in the locker room or something, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Then I got to be u punishment for the whole summer. So,
Speaker 1: you know, as I got older and more mature, I
Speaker 1: understood that he was trying to make me a good
Speaker 1: man and you know, and wasn't being mean to me,
Speaker 1: and was just trying to make sure I was protected.
Speaker 1: So in the in the third verse of the punishment song,
Speaker 1: I tell him that he's the reason why I'm the
Speaker 1: multi millionaire I am today. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: dendicated to him in a way he has dedicated to him.
Speaker 1: And I have my brother Hakim played for him, and
Speaker 1: he said, man, you know my name, my name, my
Speaker 1: middle name is Dantees. So he calls me Donnie. He said,
Speaker 1: tell Donnie that. I said, thank you, cause he probably
Speaker 1: we never really talked about it. You know, I left
Speaker 1: his house with my mom and never came back. That
Speaker 1: was it. That's it. You never came back. I know,
Speaker 1: like I would go visit mom ytff like that. But
Speaker 1: again no, no, no, no, I never lived there again.
Speaker 1: And uh, you know him him hearing me, fine, resolve
Speaker 1: in our situation through the punishment. He said, tell Donnie,
Speaker 1: I said thank you. Don't forget to tell Donnie. I
Speaker 1: said thank you. I wish I could have saw his face.
Speaker 1: Parent Now, yeah, you know you.
Speaker 2: Want to instill all these values, yes, but we know
Speaker 2: it doesn't come right away.
Speaker 1: Right. It's almost like, you know, a long shot bet
Speaker 1: in a way you know no doubt, put your money
Speaker 1: down and you hope that off exactly exactly the same
Speaker 1: thing you're trying to get them to understand. They think,
Speaker 1: we don't know nothing exactly. You just hope it works out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we and we've done what they're doing, all the
Speaker 1: slick things that they do. Yeah, and I invented that ship. Yeah,
Speaker 1: trus seventeen. We know your boyfriend's downstairs, Keep that door open,
Speaker 1: keep that door off. For stepfather's has got to be
Speaker 1: tough too. That was your stepfather, of course, because you're
Speaker 1: trying to be cool, because you know her dad, her
Speaker 1: actual dad, and you don't want to say or do
Speaker 1: the wrong thing and be having to fight him, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. So you got to kind of
Speaker 1: like take it easy. So you know, my wife's kid,
Speaker 1: her name is Isabella, and I'm real soft on Isabella,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And I try to work
Speaker 1: with her and try to be a friend to her
Speaker 1: and a parent to her. If she needs something or
Speaker 1: need some advice, I'll try to give it. She knows
Speaker 1: everything at seventeen though, yeah yeah, yeah, but she's she's
Speaker 1: equipped mentally to know right from wrong though. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's you know, we make it easy even though
Speaker 1: it's kind of hard being a stepfather. I'd never been
Speaker 1: a stepfather till now because I just married her mom
Speaker 1: last year. Last year, you know, we've been together. This
Speaker 1: is to be our eleventh year together. We got married
Speaker 1: in our tenth year, you know what I mean, And
Speaker 1: we took time to learn each other. Man. We went
Speaker 1: through a lot of people. They say wise man say
Speaker 1: only foods Rushian, you know what I'm saying. And I
Speaker 1: knew that from my first marriage. You know, because we've
Speaker 1: got married because she got pregnant, you know, and I
Speaker 1: was twenty two, you know, and uh I felt like
Speaker 1: that this time. I wanted to take time to learn everything,
Speaker 1: ups and downs, happiness, misunderstandings, you know, finding respect and
Speaker 1: trust and everything. You know. Yeah, man, And now she's
Speaker 1: a part of my trust because there's trust, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. And you have a big responsibility with her. Man, Yes, sir,
Speaker 1: man really do yes, got some scary shit, Man, it's
Speaker 1: all good. Man. I married my best friend.
Speaker 3: Ma.
Speaker 1: Man, that's right. And then you take ten years to
Speaker 1: learn each other, you become those that best friend. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I'm still engaged for ten years. We're still
Speaker 1: trying to figure this out. Exactly. Take the time, thank you,
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, with a lot of people,
Speaker 1: they care about what other people think, especially their people
Speaker 1: that they see every day, their girlfriends, Like y'all been
Speaker 1: together for seven years and he gave you a ring
Speaker 1: makes him feel inferior, Like am I good enough? Because
Speaker 1: a lot of people live the fairy tale like I've
Speaker 1: been knowing you for two years. We should get married
Speaker 1: and have a baby, dude. You know, the baby can
Speaker 1: make y'all break apart. You know what I'm saying. You
Speaker 1: don't know this. A baby is a beautiful thing, but
Speaker 1: if you've got going to work and she's at home
Speaker 1: and you ain't home as much as she is, Like
Speaker 1: Michelle Obama said, I'm like, I was looking at my husband,
Speaker 1: like how many diapers you changed? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: She said that about Obama. Yeah, yeah, with him, you
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen with us. But people lived at
Speaker 1: fairy Tale, like you know, they trying to Hey, I
Speaker 1: just met him a year ago and he asked to
Speaker 1: marry me. Oh my god, Cinderella man. And then the
Speaker 1: next year they're divorced. I've seen it so many times too, man,
Speaker 1: me too. And it happens with black and brown a
Speaker 1: lot too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, Yeah, it's break up a relationship for.
Speaker 1: Yes, sir, Yes, so many reasons. Yeah, congratulations. How long
Speaker 1: you'll been together?
Speaker 2: We are?
Speaker 3: It will be five years this year.
Speaker 1: It's coming that seventh years. She's gonna be oh still
Speaker 1: already game? Okay, Oh there you go. Wow.
Speaker 3: It's funny that you said that because when we first
Speaker 3: started day and she was like, yeah, you know, if
Speaker 3: ain't nothing popping by like year seven, I don't really know.
Speaker 1: That's another number. That's the magic number.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: Early yet no kids here you are stepfather, right, I
Speaker 2: have two young boys has teenagers and they're just starting out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Man, have fun, man, yeah, fun, we have fun. You
Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff like that already.
Speaker 3: Well, actually, you know a lot of our universals, a
Speaker 3: lot of are like relationship.
Speaker 1: We're not Disney adults, Oh but we are. I am.
Speaker 3: Our second day was at Disneyland, and when I proposed,
Speaker 3: we were at like this Bahamas Disney.
Speaker 1: Yes, he has just been a part of it. And
Speaker 1: then our wedding. I've done. I've done Disney Magic, Disney
Speaker 1: Dream Yeah yeah, yeah, I done a Disney are different. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're the only cruise line that can have fireworks
Speaker 1: at sea. Yeah bro yeah yeah, so fun on you bro, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about me and my partner. We we bought
Speaker 1: the Roy and Walt Disney sweets like I had one
Speaker 1: side of the ship and he had the other side
Speaker 1: like that. Yeah, we gotta go with you yeah ye
Speaker 1: crazy yeah, yeah, we did it. We did it all
Speaker 1: the way the two story sweet Yeah. Yeah, bro, you
Speaker 1: got the free bunks. I had, the Roy had the walk.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's dope, man. We got those Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all we get to do. Those got some pictures and
Speaker 1: left Yeah, they're just left there. A lot of different
Speaker 1: Tech nine was up in there. That's crazy, yeah.
Speaker 2: Man, but yeah, you know they're they're they're starting out, man,
Speaker 2: and you know, Jeff and I tell them about our
Speaker 2: lives and try to scare them as much as possible.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I love respecting, understanding, energy, your way, thank you
Speaker 1: feel I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, they work together on this show.
Speaker 1: It's a won't let people get in your head man.
Speaker 1: You know, family can get in your head. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. They just insert little stuff that can
Speaker 1: work on you and work on your you know, self esteem, everything, man,
Speaker 1: jealous friendship and social media makes comparisons happen like they're
Speaker 1: doing this, Why we ain't doing that? Like right, they
Speaker 1: ain't really doing that. It's just on TV. Yeah right, right.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, some people are really doing it.
Speaker 1: Like if I post one, I'm really doing it.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And the gender reveal doesn't need to be you know,
Speaker 2: twenty thousand dollars, right doesn't.
Speaker 1: You don't need to special general. We did We did
Speaker 1: our gender reveal in our backyard, man, that's right. Yeah, yeah, man,
Speaker 1: your backyard, those a few acres. Take it easy, check
Speaker 1: it's not like that. Yeah, take your time, man, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, And just have fun with each other. Man.
Speaker 1: It's it's a lot of in the in this hell
Speaker 1: of a world, we can find heaven with each other,
Speaker 1: you know, like the wars happening and people are sending
Speaker 1: missiles and everything. We can still it doesn't make you,
Speaker 1: you know, blissful or anything like you don't know what's
Speaker 1: going on around you, but you know you have to
Speaker 1: try to find some heaven in this hell. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, that we we make heaven of our
Speaker 1: own lives. You know, I love ones and you know
Speaker 1: after this week, I leave on the twenty seventh, I
Speaker 1: get home on the twenty eighth, and we leave for
Speaker 1: our Hawaiian vacation with my family on the twenty ninth.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like we have to take
Speaker 1: time to try to find what we feel is heaven
Speaker 1: in our minds.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, man, and it keeps the love in the realm.
Speaker 1: Yeah, money don't buy you happiness, but I think money
Speaker 1: buys you time to plan for happiness. It is Heaven
Speaker 1: should be at home. Yeah, man, go home right here.
Speaker 1: Heaven is not does not go beyond your head. Have
Speaker 1: in head or hell from your heels. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. You can make either one of them with people.
Speaker 1: I see it on the highways out here all the time. Man.
Speaker 1: People just not practicing emotional intelligence. Now that's hard to do,
Speaker 1: it is, you know what I'm saying. That's hard to do.
Speaker 1: I've been seven years trying to practice emotional intelligence, trying
Speaker 1: not to get off my square. And I was listening
Speaker 1: to a brother talk. I was at Russell Peter's house
Speaker 1: last night, kicking it. You know what I'm saying. His
Speaker 1: bodyguard was telling us that dude pull a gun on him.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. And you know, things happen
Speaker 1: out here, man, And I'm like, he's not the guy
Speaker 1: who pulled the gun. Ain't practicing emotional intelligence, No, he's not,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And you can do something
Speaker 1: in five minutes to give you fifty years or kill you.
Speaker 1: And now with with social media, it's it intensified everything
Speaker 1: because everybody has a channel. Yeah, you make me look
Speaker 1: stupid on your channel. I'm coming to your channel and
Speaker 1: pulling up like that. I just saw this YouTuber killing
Speaker 1: a dude's wife and him his wife. Man, I'm like,
Speaker 1: for real, you're just gonna throw your life away like
Speaker 1: that in the middle of a divorce. Yeah, man, emotional intelligence, man, people,
Speaker 1: we need to try to find some control, emotional control,
Speaker 1: because emotions make you die sometimes. You know, a lot
Speaker 1: of people want to conquer the world. You have to
Speaker 1: conquer your mind first, Yes, sir, man, it's all about that.
Speaker 1: It's all about that. You can de escalate with this.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't have to fight fire with fire
Speaker 1: all the time because you burn everything down. Come on, man,
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of Gandhi or something. Man.
Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody to hear from the album like this is
Speaker 2: the one that everybody's eyes are going to light up.
Speaker 2: And man, when you're really excited about.
Speaker 1: They're all my babies, and nobody want to call their
Speaker 1: baby ugly. Who's your favorite baby? If you say who's
Speaker 1: your favorite baby? And I got more than one, You're
Speaker 1: gonna be in trouble right now. Do you have the
Speaker 1: most fun making? I was? I was really proud that
Speaker 1: I got three verses out of Yoda and made it exciting.
Speaker 1: It sounds it sounds like it was tough because it
Speaker 1: was hard.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm saying challenging.
Speaker 1: But the story about my first rhyme being written, Lola
Speaker 1: got the beat boxing in it. Man, I just want
Speaker 1: people to hear it. Man, I want people to hear it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's taking it back.
Speaker 1: But it's a movie on there. Like, keep in mind,
Speaker 1: it's all cinematic, you know, because it's my life story,
Speaker 1: you know, my origin story, so the stories from twelve
Speaker 1: years old to seven seventeen. So, but I want it's
Speaker 1: this one song on there called the Nice One. It's
Speaker 1: so cinematic. It was so cinematic that my guy who's
Speaker 1: doing the an R you know, Black Wall, and he's like, man,
Speaker 1: I don't think that fit on the album, man, that
Speaker 1: fits on a Tech nine album. Man, right there, he said,
Speaker 1: this one is supposed.
Speaker 2: To be hood.
Speaker 1: This is where you started in the hood. That ain't
Speaker 1: really hood, man, you know, so we're trying to keep
Speaker 1: the hood to understand that you got this, you know,
Speaker 1: because you know you're doing all the rock and roll stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, and people love it. You know, you're following
Speaker 1: in reverse. We love it, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but they don't know where you came from. No, and
Speaker 1: the nice one. I said, that's me though, That's what
Speaker 1: happened to me and my story. So it's it's like
Speaker 1: a it's it's like a movie. I can't wait to
Speaker 1: see what people think because it has everything and its sexuality,
Speaker 1: it has racial stuff in it and everything you had
Speaker 1: to walk through. Yeah, man, it's dope. It's dope. I
Speaker 1: can't wait for people to hear it. And it's a
Speaker 1: big one on there, that's right.
Speaker 3: Like I felt like maybe because you've been doing this
Speaker 3: for a long time, yes, sir, And I felt like
Speaker 3: you could have done this at any point in your
Speaker 3: life before now, Like, what made you want to do
Speaker 3: this album now?
Speaker 2: Not me?
Speaker 1: Because when Black came to me last last year, he's like,
Speaker 1: we want to hear an album with just all verses
Speaker 1: by you. I'm like, Nope, that's boring, Tech nine just
Speaker 1: rapping all No, it's boring. He's like, no. Man, as fans,
Speaker 1: we love that you do collaborations, but sometimes we fast
Speaker 1: forward to your verse. You know what I'm saying, no
Speaker 1: matter who's on the song, you know. So I talked
Speaker 1: to my partner Travis the next day in his office,
Speaker 1: I said, Black Walt said he think I should do
Speaker 1: a whole album, you know, just me through all the verses,
Speaker 1: and he's like, he's right, man, we want to hear that.
Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, So I said, okay, if I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do this, i'm gonna take it back to the origin
Speaker 1: fifty eight sixteen for us. I'm gonna name it that.
Speaker 1: And Black Wall's like, yeah, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: So I never was planning on doing this. So that's
Speaker 1: why it's happening now because Black Whld brought it to
Speaker 1: me and like what you think, and I'm like, we
Speaker 1: started building on it. Yeah, we started building on it.
Speaker 1: And when I started, when I got to the third song,
Speaker 1: I'm like, wow, this is beautiful because I chose beats
Speaker 1: from one producer that Black Wall hook me up with.
Speaker 1: His name is Japaz, and he did all seventeen tracks
Speaker 1: and when I got to like, check track three, it
Speaker 1: wasn't redundant. All the beats are different. So my stories
Speaker 1: are different and my pitches are different, and my cadences
Speaker 1: are different through the whole album, man, And it's a
Speaker 1: wonderful thing. Man. It's like it wouldn't have happened if
Speaker 1: he didn't bring it to me. So that's why it's
Speaker 1: happening right now out of twenty five years with Strange Music,
Speaker 1: forty years with me in the game from eighty five,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So it's like, now I'm
Speaker 1: giving you my origin story. And it's not like I
Speaker 1: don't have anything else to talk about because I just
Speaker 1: left everybody with Cosm collaboration, got killing Mic on there
Speaker 1: with me and hops In on one, and then I
Speaker 1: got Snow the product and Kevin Gates on one. You know,
Speaker 1: we up here with it, you know, right here, And
Speaker 1: I'm like, hold on, I'll be back. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: do this origin story. Then I'm gonna come back up here,
Speaker 1: and my next album is gonna be called Decorated. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Decorated MC. I'm not my MoMA flex, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So I know where I'm going. I'm
Speaker 1: not just telling my origin stories because I'm getting to
Speaker 1: the end of us, Like, well, I ain't got nothing
Speaker 1: to talk about. I got I'm so energized. Man, here,
Speaker 1: I still got planned, I got plans. I'm up, we
Speaker 1: got we got plans. In Beef Tallow. Yeah, we can't
Speaker 1: be you see you see yeah, you see me signing man,
Speaker 1: I see man yo. So very early on, you guys
Speaker 1: signed Jay Rock. Right, we did Jay Rock.
Speaker 2: Uh you guys go on tour, Jay Rock brings his
Speaker 2: hype man.
Speaker 1: His hype man is Kendrick Lamar. His hype man was
Speaker 1: m J. First, his cousin, his relative, and uh MJ
Speaker 1: got killed on our tour. First time anything happened like that.
Speaker 1: It messed up the whole tour. Man Kendrick came out
Speaker 1: to fill in for uh MJ as Jay Rock's hype man.
Speaker 1: And that's when I heard he gave me section eighty
Speaker 1: And I'm like, whoa, he gave it to you on CD.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's crazy.
Speaker 2: Whoa.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you see people give you CDs. You don't really
Speaker 1: get to man, because Jay Rock had already played me.
Speaker 1: He'd be on the bus playing black Hippie and I'm like,
Speaker 1: who is that. He's like, that's ka Dot man, He's Katot.
Speaker 1: Before he came on the tour, I'm like, Kato's dope.
Speaker 1: So when he came out, I was already I'm like, Katt,
Speaker 1: you're the one they called Katot, right, and he's like yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: He's like, hey, check this out. I'm like, holy moly,
Speaker 1: doing up shot? You know what I'm saying. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: I listened and I had an album I was doing.
Speaker 1: Maybe it was all sixes and sevens. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I did a song called I Love Music and
Speaker 1: I put him on it before people knew who he was.
Speaker 1: I put him on it with my relative Marcus Yates.
Speaker 1: We did a song I Love Music, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and he did the last verse. Fragile happened
Speaker 1: right when Good Kid, Mad City was taking off, so
Speaker 1: that one blew the hell up. Nobody knows about I
Speaker 1: Love Music because it was section eighty. That's what I
Speaker 1: was like, we gotta do something, bro.
Speaker 3: I remember when Fragile came out.
Speaker 1: And it was crazy Man may Day sent us that
Speaker 1: song with the beat with Kendall Morgan singing the hook
Speaker 1: and them singing the intro and singing with her on
Speaker 1: the hook, and it was their song. They're in the
Speaker 1: studio with me playing me the song and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is our song, but if you want it, you
Speaker 1: can have it.
Speaker 2: O G.
Speaker 1: I'm like, are you sure? You sure? Are? You crazy?
Speaker 1: Yeah right? You sure you are to give me this hit? Yeah? Man,
Speaker 1: you can have it. I'm like, I'll take it. So
Speaker 1: I sent it to Kendrick. He was on tour for
Speaker 1: Good Kid Mass City. You know what I'm saying, Uh
Speaker 1: and uh. I remember Yellowolf. I was on tour and
Speaker 1: Yellow Wolf got on my bus and he said, he's
Speaker 1: expressing how he was disgruntled, not disgruntled, but like unhappy
Speaker 1: because the thing how they put out his record wasn't
Speaker 1: really for him. You know what I'm saying. It was
Speaker 1: just like insert MC. You know what I mean. We
Speaker 1: have all the beats done for you, you just insert yourself.
Speaker 1: And he said, I'm not I'm not motivated tech And
Speaker 1: I played him fragile with my verse. Some of the
Speaker 1: people appointed to give it the Pindican never to get it.
Speaker 1: I want you to come on and got legimmy and
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm here, you know, And he's like, whoa,
Speaker 1: Now that's what I'm talking about. Send me that, I said,
Speaker 1: I already sent it to Kendrick Man. He's like, Kendrick
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be able to do this one, trust me.
Speaker 1: He was just trying to get it. He knew yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to get it. Gonna be to do this one.
Speaker 1: Trust me, I can I know what to do with this,
Speaker 1: I said, so on my mind, I'm like, I'll get
Speaker 1: both of them on it. You know what I'm saying. Okay,
Speaker 1: I sent it to you two months Kendrick did it.
Speaker 1: Before he did it, I ain't never hear nothing back
Speaker 1: from Yo. So it turns out that Yeller could do it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, man, you know, isn't the story.
Speaker 2: The story is that Kendrick met doctor Dre on your tour.
Speaker 1: Yes he did. But people think I had a hand
Speaker 1: in it. No, y'all know that black hippie was doing
Speaker 1: it big out here. They already had make you feel
Speaker 1: all right, you know what I'm saying. It was already
Speaker 1: bubbling from what I understand before my tour. So doctor
Speaker 1: Dre is probably here in patrol make you feel all
Speaker 1: right and everything that he had doing on that black hippie.
Speaker 1: So this was when House of Blues was still on sunset. Wow, legendary.
Speaker 1: It was the day we was gonna play that. That's
Speaker 1: the day he met him. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: he put up the House of Blues. I didn't see him.
Speaker 1: I never met Dre in my life, and I got
Speaker 1: songs with Snoop, I got song with Cube, I got
Speaker 1: songs with M c Wren. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: DC come to my shows in Dallas, you know, like,
Speaker 1: but never met Dre. Dre sent me something to do
Speaker 1: on a Rafiki or somebody was with him rafiki. I
Speaker 1: forgot the name of the guy Rafiki or fiki or something.
Speaker 1: He said, well, Raciti, okay, Resiti he sent He said, hey,
Speaker 1: Dre wants he's doing this beats New Year's Eve kind
Speaker 1: of mixed and he wants to do mashups. And he
Speaker 1: sent me the Beautiful People. I wrapped on it. That
Speaker 1: that that that that that that that, and I sent
Speaker 1: it back and he played it on the that's the
Speaker 1: closest s. Yeah, but I never met him face to fake.
Speaker 1: I'm sure I will. Yeah. I got song with Eminem
Speaker 1: I got you know, yeah, you know, but you've met
Speaker 1: Pak a couple of times, yeah, yeah, a couple of times.
Speaker 1: I got does Get Lonely Too with Park Before they
Speaker 1: remixed it, EMINEMM remixed it without me. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Because the one with me and Pak did
Speaker 1: uh two D three produced it. If I'm not mistaken
Speaker 1: it had if I was your girlfriend?
Speaker 3: Is that.
Speaker 1: We wrap into that Tech nine and T two teching
Speaker 1: too podcas see you.
Speaker 2: Went to.
Speaker 3: Throw what thought you knew?
Speaker 1: Does get Lonely too? Yeah too to Prince, but that
Speaker 1: wasn't about to get cleared. Yeah, so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: so I got you know, I got a lot of
Speaker 1: songs with people that Dre worked with. No, I don't happen,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm saying, I'm sure I will. You going
Speaker 1: on tour? Yeah, man, I'm about to go on tour
Speaker 1: with Falling in Reverse again. We went last year and
Speaker 1: it went so well that Ronnie Racky called me back
Speaker 1: and like, hey man, you want to go on another
Speaker 1: tour with me. I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, And uh
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna do thirteen dates on their tour starting
Speaker 1: early August, and then right after that, I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: right on Bone Thugs and Harmonies tour with three six
Speaker 1: Mafia and DJ quick Man called the Thuggets Ruggs Mafia Tour.
Speaker 1: And I hear that they're trying to add Yellowolf to it.
Speaker 1: I think you know what I'm saying, Let's get it.
Speaker 1: So it's great, Yeah, man, and we're doing the gathering,
Speaker 1: and we're doing Louder than Life, you know what I'm saying. Festival,
Speaker 1: you know, coming up so and I'm doing the Grammy
Speaker 1: Museum on Thursday. That's right. You know, we still they
Speaker 1: still want to hear Tech nine. That man. Enjoy that
Speaker 1: Hawaiian vacation. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2: On tour with families important, sir, Yes, sir, it's all
Speaker 2: about that tech noine.
Speaker 1: Congratulations, thank you. It's always a family feeling in here.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Love always doing ninety two three. Hey Jack
Speaker 1: get Rich with the Cruise Show.
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